Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Staff+ Android Engineer to build and evolve core Kotlin frameworks, enhance app performance, and develop internal tooling to accelerate engineering velocity.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve core Kotlin frameworks used across multiple apps and platforms (e.g., caching, state management, observability, navigation, component systems)
- Enhance app performance (startup, responsiveness, memory, battery life) through profiling, monitoring, regression prevention, or architectural improvements
- Increase reliability by reducing crashes, improving error handling, and driving release process improvements
- Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to identify pain points and emerging infrastructure needs
- Develop internal tooling and automation (CI, testing, guardrails, Codex agent skills, and systems) to accelerate engineering velocity
- Turn real-world constraints into simple abstractions: intuitive APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults
Skills
- Strong expertise in Android development (Kotlin, modern architecture patterns, Jetpack)
- Experience with performance, build/CI, or AI developer productivity
- Ability to build and evolve core Kotlin frameworks used across multiple apps and platforms
- Experience enhancing app performance (startup, responsiveness, memory, battery life) through profiling, monitoring, regression prevention, or architectural improvements
- Ability to increase reliability by reducing crashes, improving error handling, and driving release process improvements
- Experience collaborating closely with product engineering teams to identify pain points and emerging infrastructure needs
- Ability to develop internal tooling and automation (CI, testing, guardrails, Codex agent skills, and systems) to accelerate engineering velocity
- Ability to turn real-world constraints into simple abstractions: intuitive APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults
- Ownership by identifying key risks/opportunities, driving projects to completion, and adapting quickly
- Care about measurement: instrument thoroughly, define metrics, run experiments, and iterate based on data
- Effective communication and collaboration skills—aligning on interfaces, navigating tradeoffs, and driving cross-team execution
- Ability to think in systems, fight entropy, and enjoy ambiguous challenges
Benefits
- Offers Equity
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